Rainfall
- 1st: 0.01"
- 2nd: 0.01"
- 6th: 0.99"
- 7th: 2.22"
- 10th: 0.4"
- 11th: 0.02"
- 22nd: 0.04"
- 23rd: 0,54"
- 24th: 0.17"
- 25th: 0.41"
- 26th: 0.58"
- Total: 5.39 inches
Temperature
- range of nighttime lows: 34 to 66°F (1 to 19°C)
- range of daytime highs: 61 to 85°F (16 to 29.5°C)
Last frost: 13th
Weather Notes: We've had a few toasty days but mostly the weather has been lovely.
Planted
- okra
- Swiss chard
- corn
- potatoes
- transplants
- tomatoes
- cucumbers
- sweet basil
Harvested
- asparagus
- lettuce
- wild lettuce
- chickweed
- chicory greens
- kale
- collards
- broccoli bits
- lambs quarter
- oregano
- snow peas
Pictures
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| Transplanting my greenhouse tomato starts |
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The newly transplanted tomatoes covered with scraps from the shade cloth we used to cover the greenhouse last summer. |
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| Snow pea flowers |
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| Snow peas with edible pods |
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| Red raspberry patch |
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Polyculture bed: the squash and lambs quarter are volunteers. Also growing are things I planted: lettuce, beets carrots, and daikons. |
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| Parmesan containers make for nice seed storage. |
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| A hopeful strawberry. Usually critters get them as they ripen. |
It's been a busy month in the garden and I'm glad for it. So, how about your
garden? How's it coming along?
Garden Notes: April 2025 © April 2025
Your raspberry patch looks so healthy! I hope you are blessed with an abundance of fruit.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you've gotten a good amount of rain. It makes all the difference.
We are hummin' along here. Harvested a few strawberries, lettuce is feeding me daily and the blueberries are getting ready to ripen in the next couple of weeks. So many goodies in the garden right now!
Enjoy this gift of a day!
Daisy, rain makes all the difference! Hopefully, I can get everything established and well mulched before our dry days arrive. Nice to hear you're getting some tasty harvest!
DeleteEverything is looking so green and vibrant!. Peas already!
ReplyDeleteCleared my 'grow table' off yesterday, and took bins of warm weather plants out to start hardening on the shaded verandah...25C yesterday....-2C this am. All the bins came back inside last evening, and the lids got dropped on the cold frames, where hardier stuff is. It is the 'watch the temp' time of year!
But yeah! Rhubarb is almost up enough to harvest some.
DeleteRosalea, I envy your rhubarb! I've tried to grow it a number of times but it's never happy. Sounds like you are having quite the spring temperature swings. That's always a challenge for a gardener.
DeleteAll this abundance! One thing I do have in common is the usefulness of those containers!
ReplyDeleteLiz, aren't they great? So nice for so many things. And I feel wonderful repurposing rather than turning them into trash. :)
DeleteIt's severe drought here. I've only measured 65/100" since mar 1. And a little over 2" in Jan/Feb. So I'm doing more watering than I ever have. It is close to our monsoon season to start so things will change soon hopefully. I have harvested 6qts of mulberries(for the freezer, + I eat a cup a day)and 3 peaches, and a few small zucchini and onions. About a pint of snow peas and 4 tomatoes. The peach trees are loaded so hopefully a good haul once rain comes. And praying the other fruit trees hold their small fruits through this dry time...
ReplyDeleteAnnie, drought is horrible to deal with and I hope you start getting rain soon. So nice that you are getting the first of the harvest! Our peach tree is loaded as well, so I'm really hoping for an abundant harvest. Actually, looks like it will be a very good year for fruit.
DeleteOur garden is mostly in at this point. We have a few egg plants and peppers that we will probably transplant in a few weeks. Everything is up except the corn which I just planted a few days ago. I've harvested nothing from the garden but did pick some asparagus not a couple days ago from the old bed at the farm when I was down that way. We should have lettuce ready here in a matter of days. I have to ask, what is the purpose of the shade cloth over the tomatoes? I've never covered mine with anything.
ReplyDeleteEd, good question. The shade cloth is only for new transplants, to protect them from our fiercely intense sun. That's one of the downsides to our long southern growing season, the sun is more directly overhead. If it's rainy or overcast, I find they do fine, but if it's sunny the shade cloth rescues them from severe wilt those first couple of days.
DeleteI just added sweet basil to my transplant list. Their new home is the old keyhole garden. I still have parsley and dill to transplant, but that will probably have to be tomorrow.
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ReplyDeleteWe have an early start to our garden in spite of me being laid up! Just before my surgery we cleaned up last year's remains and my husband tilled, then he bought quite a few starts and got them in the ground – tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and butternut squash. Plus, he's been working on our new strawberry patch.
Michelle, I'm glad to hear that! I was wondering how it was going with your recuperation in full swing. It's great that the family pulls together like this. :)
DeleteI guess that makes sense to me. I usually get some wilt after transplanting, especially larger tomato starts. The little ones don't wilt as bad. I had always chalked it up as stress but it may have been the sun too. Good information to know.
ReplyDeleteEd, it is stress for sure, I've just found that my transplants recover more quickly with a little protection from the sun. But at your latitude, it sounds like it works well exactly as you're doing it.
DeleteSounds like lovely weather and the garden look so green!
ReplyDeleteI planted some leeks, greens, and a lone pepper plant to see how those work in containers.
TB, even a small container garden can be rewarding. :)
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